Yeah. Back in the 90s, "terascale" was the same kind of milestone buzzword that was being thrown around all the time.
Because of that, I felt a bit of nostalgia when I first saw consumer-accessible GPUs hitting the 1 TFLOP performance level, which now I suppose qualifies as a cheap iGPU.
I have no problem with “exascale” or whatever, it’s just not a barrier, there was nothing in particular to overcome to get there, it’s just a signpost along the normal path forwards.
Unlike the sound barrier in flight, it was for a while thought impossible to fly faster than sound and there are indeed models of subsonic flight that have an infinity in them at the speed of sound. It indeed took new models and radically different designs to fly faster than sound.
Making this computer do a certain number of calculations didn’t involve any such problem to overcome.
